Yep, the EU approved the deal European Commission Approves Oracle-Sun Deal | John Paczkowski ...<http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100121/eu-approves-oracle-sun-deal/> Smart money is for developers to look at a fork of MySQL or better yet PostgreSQL On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:

I'll take number 2. I don't think open source is ending any time soon, neither is commercial software for that matter. There are a few other very popular open source softwares out there, Apache comes to mind. I am also pretty sure that the success of MySQL can be replicated in another product, either existing or not.

Did the EU finally approve this buyout?

Someone on Kictanet just said this to me.. Al Kags, Its not such a bad thing and I would grieve so much about this transaction. Of course even Oracle still gives out the XE edition ( http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html) for free the free version of their multimillion $$ Oracle database and MySQL standard edition is still there to save us. Taking away MySQL off the picture leaves us with the very powerful PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org/) so for now am still not crying so much. The time to go scream over my pillow is yet to come but as a precaution am downloading everything opensource and keeping it in my small data centre for future use when people are acquired. Al Kags ----------------------- Author, Living Memories. “IF THERE IS SUCH A THING AS Kenya, these stories belong to us all, just as the pictures in Kenya Burning document the trauma of a nation during the post-election violence. The age of history written by white males is well and truly over.” - Star Columnist, Betty Caplan in the East African Weekly Newspaper. http://living.alkags.com On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Philip Musyoki <pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:

It is not the end of Open Source, rather the end of Jonathan 'My Little Poney' Shwartz and Scott McNealy as we know them.

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I think your friend can save his/her bandwidth because whatever happens to MySQL under Oracle, existing versions of MySQL cannot be retroactively changed to include non-opensource licenses. It is within their rights, however, to change the licenses of *future* MySQL releases. Secondly, as a major opensource product, MySQL binaries are distributed in far more places than from MySQL.com (for instance, most *nix users get theirs from their respective distribution repositories - Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu etc etc). Thirdly, as the digital world slowly moves to "big data", relational databases will slowly become obsolete (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL) - a very welcome development for anyone who has had to deal with *SQL clustering and replication. Saidi On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Al Kags <alkags@gmail.com> wrote:

but as a precaution am downloading everything opensource and keeping it in my small data centre for future use when people are acquired.

postgres - feels exactly like SQL, and its easily downloadable for both Unix and Windows -- so all is not lost !!